Hyderabad’s Sadar Festival: the buffalo carnival that keeps tradition alive in the city
Every year, two days after Diwali, parts of Hyderabad erupt in a spectacle of colour, music and pageantry as the Yadava community celebrates Sadar (also called Dunnapothula Panduga) — a buffalo carnival that honours cattle, community identity and rural traditions inside the urban sprawl. In 2025 the festival again drew large crowds to traditional hubs…